Class of 2026: Related Content
The vibrant blue program audience members picked up from a music stand inside Greenwall Auditorium at The Bennington Balkan Ensemble concert last Wednesday night could not reveal the rich cultural experience in store.
More than 100 attendees participated in Bennington College’s first Bon Dance Festival on May 3.
Luca van der Velde '26, who has been covering community news for The Bennington Banner, highlighted the Bennington Senior Show, an annual opportunity for Bennington graduates studying Visual Art to showcase their work from May 19–30.
Eleven Bennington students have received Field Work Term scholarships for experiences either completed during the 2026 winter Field Work Term season or that will take place over summer 2026.
On May 29 and May 30, Bennington College will celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2026 at the 91st Commencement. Learn more about graduate outcomes across the years.
As spring arrives in Bennington, preparations are underway for another growing season at Purple Carrot Farm—a 1.2-acre campus farm that has rapidly expanded its production, student programming, and community partnerships in recent years. The farm serves as a food source for the campus and as a living classroom where students study sustainable agriculture and local food systems.
JAYS – Bennington Artisan Market (B.A.M.) presents "My Fleeting Moments," a solo exhibition Mattias Van Cleef '26, from May 1–7 in the storefront windows at 115 South Street in downtown Bennington. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 1, from 5:00–7:00 pm.
The Bennington College Herbarium was showcased at this year's Northeast Natural History Conference in Burlington, VT.
Rafe Churchill '91 discusses his latest venture, Place in Mind, a hotelier dedicated to resurrecting historically unique properties that recall a life well lived in a place well loved.
On Saturday, March 14, Linds Leggett ’27, along with facilitators Beatrix Sherry ’26 and Carissa K. Lombardi '26, joined nearly a dozen participants in the Admissions Parlor for a restorative justice circle combined with succulent planting. The event, part of the Restorative Justice Collective’s Pi Day celebration, centered on building community.
"Catastrophe Theory," a poem by Blu Mehari '26, was selected by poet Matthew Shenoda for the 2025 Green Prize for Poetry by the Academy of American Poets and is featured on their website.
Work propels students toward promising careers in bioinformatics and genetics.
Thirty Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2026 Field Work Term.
Braving a frigid December evening, Bennington students and faculty packed the CAPA Symposium on Tuesday, December 9, to hear sixteen seniors present their Advanced Work in Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT).
Bennington College student Andrea Lara ’26 joins Brown University ecology research.
Learn about transfer student experiences at Bennington College.
Learn about transfer student experiences at Bennington College.
Ursula Calle Pinto '26 is an international student from Peru. She graduated from United World College (UWC) Changshu in 2021. She shared her experience as a Davis UWC Scholar at Bennington College.
On September 2, 2025, the Bennington community gathered to celebrate the start of the academic year and welcome nearly 200 new first-year and transfer students to the College.
Zee Camp '26 recently hosted the disability-centered ceramic lesson Creature Creation at Context Collective in Troy, NY.
Jason de la Peña '26 studies Literature at Bennington. For his summer 2025 Field Work Term, he interned at Green Writers Press.
Edison Hicks '26 studies Literature, Drama, and Music at Bennington. For their summer 2025 Field Work Term, Hicks interned at Green Writers Press.
Jay Clark '26 studies Literature and Environmental Studies at Bennington. For his summer 2025 Field Work Term, Clark is working as an archival intern for the OUTWORDS Archive, which captures, preserves, and shares the stories of LGBTQIA2S+ elders to build community and catalyze social change.
Aliza Khan '26 studies Visual Arts, including Architecture and Sculpture, at Bennington. For their summer 2025 Field Work Term, Khan is working as an intern for Yasue Maetake, a New York City-based Japanese sculptor.
On the evening of Friday, May 2, 2025, at Martha Hill Dance Theater at Bennington College, Bachelors of Arts students who produced Advanced Work in Dance performed To the Point: Senior Dance Concert.
A Boy Named Salmon, a play by Rachel McCauley ’25, wasn’t just a production—it’s a deeply personal, defiant, and resonant exploration of identity, belonging, and the discomfort of truth-telling in so-called progressive spaces. It was presented in Margot Tenney Theater on Thursday, May 8, and Friday, May 9, 2025.
The scent of simmering curry and cooking rice filled the Student Center Kitchen at Bennington College on Saturday afternoon, May 3, as Bennington College students and members of the local Japanese community gathered to cook, connect, and celebrate International Food Day.
The juniors and seniors in Sue Rees’s Animations Projects class have walked away with several valuable lessons this term. Stills from their projects are up in an exhibition in the Barn Annex through May 16.
Each winter, Bennington College students step outside the classroom to take part in Field Work Term—a six-week immersion in the professional world designed to help them deepen their studies, gain real-world experience, and explore potential career paths and contribute valuable skills to companies and nonprofits.